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Archive: May 2019 (20 Posts)

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Pic of the Week: Crazy Rich Asians Edition

Posted by: Neely Tucker

“Crazy Rich Asians” was the book that started it all for Kevin Kwan, the Singapore-born, New York-dwelling visual consultant and novelist. The 2013 satire about fabulously wealthy Chinese ex-pat families living (and loving and gossiping and shopping) in Singapore became an international bestseller, spawning two sequels and a hit 2018 film directed by Jon M. …

Posted in: Pic of the Week

Image of an ornate clock showing 2:05 with sculpted male figures sitting on each side of the clock face

Crowdsourcing Invitation: Help Tell a Civil War Soldier’s Story

Posted by: Neely Tucker

By the People, the Library’s crowdsourcing transcription project, is rallying readers to complete 500 pages from the “Civil War Soldiers: Disabled but not disheartened” campaign before Memorial Day. These were gathered by journalist and chaplain William Oland Bourne as part of a left-handed penmanship competition for Union soldiers who had lost their right hand or …

Posted in: By the People, Civil War

Image of an ornate clock showing 2:05 with sculpted male figures sitting on each side of the clock face

Remembering I. M. Pei

Posted by: Wendi Maloney

I.M. Pei died Thursday at his home in Manhattan. He was 102. In recognition of his extraordinary achievements, we reprint this guest post by Mari Nakahara, curator of architecture, design and engineering in the Prints and Photographs Division, focusing on his items in the Library. It ran on his 100th birthday. Chinese-American architect Ieoh Ming …

Posted in: Collections, Exhibitions, Photos